Charles f



O. F. W. SEIDEL.

Ironing-Table.

Patented Mar. 16, I880.

N. PETERS, EHDTO-L|THDGRAPHEE WASHINGTON. [1.0.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES F. W. SEIDEL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

lRON lNG-TABLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 225,648, dated March 16, 1880.

Application filed December 10, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. W. SEIDEL, of the city, county, and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Ironing-Tables, of which the following is a specification.

Although my improvements are applicable to ironing-tables for ironing various articles, they are especially intended and are here represented as embodied in a table for ironing the bosoms of shirts.

One of my improvements consists in the combination, with an ironing-table and a holdin g frame or frames surrounding the same, of a collar-band extending or shaping device, consisting of a block which is movable between two or more fixed positions, a bow which is adjustable relatively to said block, and a screw for adjusting the same.

Other improvements consist in devices for facilitating the stretching of the articles over the ironing-table and for adjusting the width of the outer holding-frame to suit different thickness of material.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a plan of an ironing-table embodying my invention, a portion of the outer holdin g-frame being in section, to more clearly illustrate part of my invention. Fig. 2 represents a longitudinal section on the dotted line as m, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a transverse section on the dotted line y y, Fig. 1. Fig. 4. represents a perspective view of a portion of the inner holding-frame and a projection formed thereon for extending or stretching a collarband; and Fig. 5 represents a perspective view of an extension-piece provided with hooks for attachment to said projection.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A designates an ironing-table, which is preferably hollow, and is furnished with pipes to and b for the entrance and exhaust of a heating agent, such as steam.

For stretching shirts or other articles over the table I employ a holding or clamping de vice consisting of an inner frame, B, fitting around the table, and an outer frame, 0, fitting snugly around the said inner frame, between which frames the article is to be clamped.

In order to provide for sufficiently stretching articles upon the table the two frames are hinged together at c, and are adapted to be moved vertically. In order to enable said frames to rise automatically when released. I employ springs (7, represented as of spiral form, and inserted in holes in the posts 0', which posts also receive rods 0 extending downward from the frame B, whereby the latter is properly guided in its vertical movements.

D designates catches arranged upon a rockshaft, 1), for holding the frames in their depressed position, and D designates alever by which said shaft may be oscillated to release the frames. Springs 0, coiled around the shaft D, serve to keep the catches D in engagement with the frames for preventing their accidental release.

hen a shirt is to be ironed the holdingframes B and (J are raised and the shirt clamped between them. Both are then depressed and secured, stretching the shirt tightly over the table A.

For properly shaping the collar-band I en1- ploy a device consisting of a block, E, which may be secured in one of several positions upon the table A. The said block is here shown as secured to the table by means of So dowel-pins f, which may fit in either of three sets of holes, 9.

F designates a bow adapted to be adjusted relatively to the block by means of a rightand-leit-threaded screw, F, which, preferably, has its central portion covered with a corrugated wood handle or hub, to prevent its burning the fingers.

To prevent the bow F from rising up when strain is brought upon it, I provide its front lower edge with alip, s, which slips under the edge of the bosom and holds the bow down upon the table A. In lieu of the lip the how might be provided with 'pins or hooks for penetrating the collar-band.

To accommodate great differences in the sizes of collar-bands the block may be moved from one set of holes 9 to another, and to ad just the device for minor difierences the bow F may be adjusted by means of the screw F.

To aid in shaping the collarbands the inner frame, B, is provided with a projection,

B, over which the collar-band is placed, and to properly shape collarbands of different sizes I employ removable extension-pieces G, provided with hooks h, for attaching them to the projection B. Several of these extension-pieces of different sizes may be provided and substituted one for another when desirable.

In order to more advantageously stretch articles to be ironed over the table A, and at the same time to allow the cloth to slip before an injurious strain is produced upon it, I provide the outer frame, 0, with ayielding presser-bar, H, here represented as of cylindrical form, and supported at each end in slots 2' in the outer frame, so as to permit of its horizontal movement. This presser-bar is forced inward by springs j, and to enable the force of said springs to be adjusted I employ screws k, inserted through the outer frame, 0. These springs, while they press the bar H forward with sufficient force to stretch an article over the table, provide for the yielding of said bar and the slipping of the article before the latter is subjected to injurious strains.

In order to accommodate articles of different thicknesses I divide the outer frame, 0, at each end, and connect the divided parts by screws l m, the former of which has a rightan d-left thread. Around the screw m is represented a spring, a, which keeps the parts of the outer frame, 0, separated as much as said screw will permit.

In order to give the outer frame, 0, a better hold or bite upon the article in stretching it over the table A, I employ a cord, 0, of yielding material, which is laced back and forth through holes in said frame, as clearly represented in Fig. 1.

The outer frame, 0, is represented as prowith a centrally-arranged lug or car, 19, Fig. 1, upon which the hand may be pressed to depress said frame.

positions on the table, a bow which is adjust able relatively to said block, and an adjusting-screw between the said block and bow, substantially as herein described.

2. The combination, with the ironing board or table, of the block E, provided with dowels to enter holes in the board or table, the adjustable bow F, and the right-and-left-handthreaded screw F, screwing into said block and bow, substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

3. The combination, with the inner and outer holding-frames, of a cord of yielding material laced through holes in the outer frame, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

4. The combination, with the inner and outer holding-frames, B O, and the springs 61 d, applied to the inner frame, of the rock-shaft D and its hooks D D, and springs 0, applied to operate on the outer frame, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

5. The spring at, in combination with the divided frame 0 and its adjusting-screw m, substantially as and for the purpose'herein described.

OHARLES F. W. SEIDEL.

Witnesses:

FREDK. HAYNES, T. J. KEANE. 

